Re: How to generate better API documentation?

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 09:17:03AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> To me the key factor is what the end result looks like, how easy it is to
> navigate & find stuff. From that POV doxygen is ruled out as the HTML it
> generates is just awful - I despair every time i find a project which has
> use doxygen for its API docs :-(
> 
> gtk-doc is pretty good in this respect, but the limitation is that they do
> not try to support every possible C style - they expect you to write code
> in a gobject like style. I can't tell offhand if libvirt is close enough
> to work with gtk-doc or not - I do know that QEMU failed. It is something
> you'd just have to try and see if it works, and also see if the result is
> better than what we have of course.

kernel people have been experimenting with Sphinx for both
linux/Documentation file, and inline source file documentation,
https://lwn.net/Articles/692704/

Christophe

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